Rupp (Leitsinger)*
Nikolaus Rupp, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and son Konrad (age 5) arrived from Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Russ [sic] came from the German village of Oberhöchstadt in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rupp family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 65.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #614.
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